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The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-05

st. Louis has been q little slow in
getting her building societies startsd,
but is now fast swinging into line
Wild the other large cities,
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-05
SUMMONING JURORS.

"If you were on a jury, then, WEer
j. ma. was being tried for his life
you wouldn't agree to verdict t.
heHg hi.n, would your"
eyes, sir; yes, sir; I'm agreeable
At1svs you formed or expressed al
pcinicn as to the guilt or innocence
pi The accused"
nYes, sir; | think ] have"
"Tour mind, then, is made Up?'
HNo, sir; oh, no. My mind ISM
nade up, at ALL"
"Have you any bias for OF against
the prisoner?'
Yes, sir; think have"
Htr the general criminal jIrisFru-
dance, would that bias maintain its
equilibrium or subteHd its ~predesti-
~rss:na3"
II think it would, ledge.'
EBgt which would ii do?'
HYes, sir; | think it would sGrter
d.. isdge."
nfou say you are biased for or
against the prisoner; you are predju-
DICED then, are you:'
mo, sir: Pm not a bit prejudiced,"
NHave you ever heard or read of
This case hcfore?"
mo, sir; yes, sir; Jeanne see,
ledge; you've got me sorter tangled.
yes~yesi I think ! have"
"If on a jury would you decide ac-
ehrdiug to the evidence, or mere ru-
more?'
"Meer roomer, jedge."
"Perhaps you don't understand the
question. Would you decide this
ease according to the evidence ad-
iuced, or mere rumor""'
"Ah-yes-yes, sir; I'd decide it
'cordin' to roomer juiced,'
"If ii were in your power to do so,
would you change the law of capital
punishment, or let it stend""
"Let her stand.h
~ say, would you let it stand or
change it??'
"Change it,"
"Now, tell me- plainly, sir, which
you would do:h
"I-ah-yes, sir; | think would,
jedge.'
l.
"Are you a free holder?o
Eyes, sir; Pm a free holder.'
500 you W a house and lot, or
are you & rentero'
"Neither, jedge; I'm a boardet..,
"What do you do for Il living?
Whist is your occupation: -,
"My oocupation2 Ah-yes-ye,s,
lir; my occupation is my wife takes
washin'.n
"What is capital punishment"
"Capitul punishment is--l-I think
is sendin' a man to the capitul {
they keep the penytenshy- :,
mt it, iedge?"
'HaVe you formed an opinion I' e
mo, sir haint formed no erpin-
'un.N ~
"Have you expressed one:" $,
eyes, ledge; ! think have" Il
"Gentlemen, l think this juror is
ompetent. He certainly fills to the l..
sitter all the reguirments of the ~
reat Palladium as well as any man
ever saw. If we had a few more b
lch 'pailadiums' as he Is, American =
could soar aloft among its u,
most transcendant privileges, and S,
rhine would hang-wouId hang =
yell, would hang It's head, if it didn't Y
ang anything else. Take your seat :
! the Jury box, sir.'-AvaIanche.
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Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-18
WASTED ENERGY.

Florence Kelley Wischnewetzkv,
in the christian Iaioa, says:
The need Of phllanthropic work
arises from the fact that the hons
share of the fruits of labor falls to
somebody else, and not to the class
that produces all values. That class
receives only enough to enable it to
maintain itself and bring up the
rising generation according to the
prevailing standard of life at the
given time and in the given place.
Shall | spend my life in applying
palliatives, in trying to make the in
tolerable endurable yet d little
longer? Shall | spend my youth
upon a children's hospital, when the
dispensary rolls of the city show that
the deterioration of the child
physique in the working class is out
of proportion to all that palliatives
can do to check it; that increasing
poverty brings increasing rachitic
disease out Of all proportion to the
growth of population, so that hospl-
tai work is Sisyphus task? Shall
| send a score or hundred children
for recreation to the country, when
year by year our factories and tene-
ment-house workrooms demand fresh
thousands of children to toll within
their noisome prison walls Shall
| preach temperance to men whose
homes are vile tenements, whose
wives slave side by side with them
because the fathers wages no longer
suffice to maintain the family? Men
whose exhausted, -ill-nourshed
frames demand stimulants because
the wife has neither time, money,
nor strength with which to procure
and prepare good and sufficient food.
Shall | fritter away the days of
my youth investigating the deserv-
ingness of this or that applicant for
relief, when the steady march of in
dustrial development throws mil
lion ble-bodied men out of work
and forces them to tramp the coun-
try seeking in vain chance to earn
their bread, until hundreds, aye,
thousands of them, broken, dis
couraged, demoralized. settle down
into the life of a chronic pauper?
Shall | not rather make common
cause with these my brothers and
my sisters to make an end OF such a
system?
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-18

Every hair in his head, and every
member of his body comes in for a
special invocation for particular
damnation.
The old provorb that curses, like
chickens, come home to roost, would
be verified if the honest Pensioners
of st. Stephens had their way about
it IN the case Of DR.. McGlym.
1t must be discouraging to the
cursers to find that the world con-
tinues to roll on, and the sun to
shine, and the cursees to eat three
square meals IL day, Notwithstanding
the racket of the "bell, book and
candle "
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-18
OF AMERICAN SECTIONS

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5000 Goth street, South,
New YORK Meeting every first and third Mon
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New HAVEN, Consolidating at Trades Council
Hall. Organizer, j. F. Busche, 2. o. Drawer
t03.
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Camiac street. -5.#-.
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in each month at C0mrade G. Fontyn's, AS
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organizer,
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is Cranston street
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Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-18
EXCOMM UNICATION.
A Curious Piece of Anticipated Tom.
FOOIery.

The McGlynn episode brings to
the surface a curious and Anticipated
piece of tom foolery that in the light
of the present day seems almost toe.
ridiculous to be a part OF even a
churchly rite. 1t is nothing less,
than general "cussing" gotten up.
in the most elaborate manner. 1t
had the effect in past ages Of super.
stition of soaring the wits out of con-
tumacious kickers against so-called
religion, and was known as excom-
municatlon.
The severest form Of eXcommunl-
cation was accompanied in its fnlml-
nation by the extravaganza ceremonies
mentioned in history. They explain
the anathema Of st. Paul, and were
something like the following:
The clergy, assembled IN a church,
came before an altar holding lighted
tapers in their hands. The bells
were rung, and the celebrant, holding
a lighted taper in one hand, spread
the other on an open Bible, and,
after reciting the crime, said: "By
the authority of God, the Father
Almighty, God the Son and God the
Holy Ghost, of the Blessed Virgin
Mary and of all the angels, arch
angels, saints, martyrs and confess
ors, we excommunlcate the sad
-, and we anathematlze him :"
He closed the book, the bells again
sounded, and he threw the taper on
the ground; the clergy followed the
example, and as the smoke arose from
the smoldering wlcks, he continued:
"Thus may hislife be distinguished,
and thus may his damned soul smoke
and stink in the nostrils of the Di-
vine vengeance " "-Amen."
"Let him be accursed; let no man
show him mercy, and let the mem
ory of his name be quite forgotten.
"Amen."
"May God rain flames of sulphur
and fire on him." "Amen.
"May he clothe himself in the male
diction of the high curse as he puts
on his garments"
"May the waters of vengeance be
in his inner parts as marrow IN his
bones. May he be girded with the
girdles of malediction and partaker
with Pharaoh, Nero, Herod, and
Judas, the betrayer of our Lord;
and with Dathan and ADRIAN may
he descend quick into hell"
MAY the Lord send him hunger
and thirst and strike him with the
pestilence that he may be consumed
and his generation eradicated May
He strike him with leprosy and mad
ness, and let him rot that he may be
an abomination and an astonish-
ment ~ To all of which the re-
spoons were "Amen, Amen, 80 be
it,"
This is only part of the ceremony,
however, for some of the authorities
tell of the separate and particular
cursing of every organ of the body
Of the victim Of churohly boycott.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-18
L-lBERTYS SONG.
BY ERNEST JONES.

My countrymen why anguish
Like outcasts Of the earth,
And drown in tears of anguish
The glory of your birth;
9e were freeborn people,
And heroes were your race;
The dead-they are our freemen--
The living our disgrace.
You bend beneath your letters,
You fear your foes to spurn:
March When you meet your betters
It's time enough to turn.
INDIAN the tide of freedom.
Your hearts its God-like source;
Faith, Honor, Right and Glory,
The currents Of its course.
And were it death awaits We,
On! Death is liberty
Then quails the power that hates ye,
When freemen dare to die.
He shall not be a freeman,
Who brooks to be a slave
An alien to the country
And a mockery to the brave.
Down with the cup, untasted
Its draught lis not for thee;
Its generous strength were wasted
On all, but on the free
Turn from the altar, bondsmen,
Nor touch freeborn bride.
What Wouldst thou bear her blushing
For thee, at thine own side?
Back from the church door, Craven;
The great dead sleep beneath,
And Liberty is craven
On every sculptured wreath
For whom shall lips of beauty
And history's glories be?
For whom the pledge of friendship?
For the FREE the FREE the FREE,
Labor Enquirer.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-18
S. l.. P.
GENERAL VOTE UPON THE CONVEN-
TON OF OUR PARTY.
S. l.. P.

The Sections have, by large majority, voted
to hold a general convention this year. We now
request them to vote upon time and place of
holding such convention.
After careful consideration of circumstances,
as well as of wishes expressed to us, we propose
that the obening day be September r., and that
decision be made between the cities of Buffalo,
Cleveland and Rochester, For geographic rea-
sons we recommend Buffalo
The reports of result of the general vote
should he in our hands by July /, and every Sec
ton should Immediately busy themselves with
propositions for presentation at the convention
The NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
". l.. ROSENBERG, See.
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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1887-05-20
Hu band and Llird.

Two hundred years ago, each High
land chief considered himself as an in
dependent sovereign. If he had dis
pute with another chieftain, who obsti-
nately refused to yield, he levied war,
thus referring the matter TO the last re-
sort Of kings.
Each chief of clan hal the power of
pit and gallows," and could hang a
refractory clansman, without hindrancc
from the rest Of the can. On the con
Hary, they would all assist in exc
cutting their chiefs decree. Ordinarily,
but not always, they accepted the fato
decreed for them by tho laird without
mmmur.
A husband, having been condemned
10 death by his lair1, threatened re-
sistaacc, instead Of going quietly to the
cxecotioner's house and giving himself
up. Ills wife, amazed at her 'gudo
man's' conduct, demonstrated with him
0 his obstjnaey.
'D5ugall, my man, said she, in her
most appr2hensive tone, Gust gang
ava quietly and be hang't and no
anger the laird - Youths Companion.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1887-05-20
Mimicry in Nature.

Beetles oftea initiate hornets, since
tbe latter are insects to which birds in
search of animal food prefer to give i
very wide berth.
A species of ofmm,sim'tatc, the white
ant, and, mixing with The family like
one Of its own members, quietly dcyours
a fat tcrmitc, from ,.mc to time.
The lunble-bec flies, which are inof-
fcnsive little creatures, initiating the
wild bee, fit about md buzz angriy in
the sunlight quite after tic fashion Of
the insect they copy. and gain an undc-
served reputation for fcrccne.s.
Flies often dwell as unbildcn guests
n the nests and hives Of wild honey
bees. They are bclted and bearded in
the self-same pattern as their uncon-
scious hosts, but their Larvae pay for The
hospitality they steal by deyourins the
Young grub, Of the hive.
There is in Bornco a sand wasp which
is addicted to tho habit Of dcyourin4
cric1ets, but there is also a species ot
cricket which exactly reproduecs the ap-
pearance of its enemy, so that it can even
associate with il undiscovered.
Certain beetles have become modified
% resemble wasp, even to the extent Of
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1887-05-20
Killed by a Picture,

There is a famous modern picture at
Moscow of John the Terrible, after lie
has murdered his son in a fit Of rage, and
suddenly discovers the crime he has
committed. The expression in his eye s
that Of the madman, with curious
CLEAN of horror and consciousness strik-
ing him, after his son has sunk at his
feet with the blood streaming from his
wounded temple 1t IS intensely realistic,
and report asserts that on one occasion a
lady was 50 much affected by the sight
Of it that she fell down dead on the spot.
According to this tale. tile picture was
subsequently removed to an inner room
and Indies not admitted in the absence
OF a medical attendant.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1887-05-20

Oae of the easiest habits to form IS
the habit of using some one word or
phrase so often that it becomes man
ncrism. Whpple once called Emerson's
attention 70 lis arg:.ent use Of the wora
ssrsr's7 n : v9sa04 CAB
ulary.
One of the most distinguished bishops
in the Methodist Episcopal church was,
in his youth, smtten with fondness
for the word "alas, which he used with
great effect. o. one occasion he was
describing the death of the Christian
man, and thus expressed himself: "Sec
him as he lies upon a dying bed. His
friends surround him; his wife and
children are there to receive his bless
ing. At lat the farcwelIs are spoken,
he breathes no more. Now, could we
part the v.i We sAoul see congoy
Of angels sent direct from the heavenly
courts to bear his rtnsomed soul home.
lie rises higher and still higher, unit! at
last the music Of heaven rcsounds in his
ears. lie receives an abundant entrance
into the everlasting king lom, ana there,
ala, ct us lcav him" At the close Of
Tie sermon a lrot.er SAID to him.
"BrJthcr , never supposed be-
/ fore that it was mournful thing for